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To: Brumar89 who wrote (848655)	4/8/2015 9:33:29 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576378

BTW you could have moved to Oregon, similar climate and income taxes People in Vancouver, WA have the best of both worlds. Live and work in WA, with no state income tax, and simply cross over the river to shop in OR, with no sales tax..

To: Brumar89 who wrote (848655)	4/8/2015 9:51:47 PM
From: d[-_-]b	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576378

In fact, I think the cities there have income taxes. And an Art Tax all the Multnomah County libtards voted for - but neglected to understand it applied to them as well - not just the "rich people". koin.com PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — The Portland Arts Tax brought back music and arts in some schools and saved or added a total of 65 teacher jobs. Katie Robinson, a teacher at Harold Oliver Elementary School, said, “When the music budget got cut I lost my job immediately.” Then the Arts Tax passed and she’s now spending two full days teaching music at one school. “Music is one of the very few disciplines that connects both sides of the brain, the left and right side, the linear, logical, mathematical,” she said. “Right being expressive and artistic and rhythmic.” But many Portlanders aren’t paying the $35 yearly tax. Thomas Lannom, the director of the Portland Revenue Bureau, said he did not have a yearly break out. But he added, “About 300,000 people have paid about $14 million.” Music students stand on risers in a Portland school, May 26, 2014 (KOIN 6 News) That’s less than half of everyone who is required to pay — and there is a $50 penalty for not paying. “So for anyone who didn’t pay either year, it would be $120,” he told KOIN 6 News. “We are offering to waive that penalty for the people that pay the tax within 30 days of the letter that we’re sending.” Students in six area school districts — Centennial, Portland public, David Douglas, Parkrose, Reynolds, Riverdale — are reaping the rewards of the tax. The money goes to provide one elementary school teacher for every 500 students for art, music and sometimes dance classes. About 83.5% of the Arts Tax goes to the school. Start-up costs took more than 7% and bureau collection costs took another 4%. That figure goes up if Portlanders don’t start paying. The city is considering a collection agency to get the money owed from those who didn’t pay. “If someone doesn’t pay for several years in a row and owes us hundreds of dollars then we’re looking at sending that person to a collection agency,” Lannom said. Portland resident Shandra Utter said sending someone with money problems to a collection agency isn’t a big deal. “People are in problems now with bills, they’re already in collections. It’s not a big sweat to go to collections,” she told KOIN 6 News. “I already got some there. What more can you do? Jail us all?”